Surgical masks. Typically not a good sign when you are face to face with 4 dudes wearing them. Unless of course it's a band called Clinic and instead of scalpels they have fender strats and some kick ass old school organs. Not those organs, silly, something you'd see in an Amarillo antioch baptist church circa 1974. Clinic's vintage sound and brooding psych rock brand comes directly from these classic instruments. Or maybe its just their indie-fication of the legendary rock music that came out of their homebase Liverpool way back in the day. Whatever it is, they pull off an awesomely unique sound that makes you yearn for warm vinyl, some marlboro reds, and a tall glass of johnny walker black.
Clinic's new album, Do It!, which came out last month via Domino, scored a 7.7 from the indier than thou taste-tellers Pitchforkmedia.com which means it's pretty good (or you are an idiot). This tour is their first in support of this record. A little background on why you should go see them: They've been critically praised album after album - this being their 5th - since their formation 10 years ago and still have not formed a huge fan base (i.e. you can still see them outdoors at Emo's). They've played pretty much every major Festival in Europe and our country and have opened for the likes of Radiohead and Arcade Fire. Arcade Fire even covers one of their songs. Lastly, in addition to the surgical masks, they will be wearing Hawaiian shirts on stage this Friday. Nuff said.Here's one from their new album complete with wardrobe:
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